Take a Look at These Christopher Paolini Appearances, Including Video From FantasyCon, Audio Book Sessions, and Interviews

We’ve got a round-up of the latest Christopher Paolini appearance information, which includes a video from his recent appearance at FantasyCon, where he headlined the convention as a panelist before participating in an audience Q&A session and book signing; the final Facebook fan page interview, where Christopher answers a few fan questions; a B&N video session where Christopher discusses his favorite fantasy books; and a Random House Audio Books blog-post detailing Christopher’s visit to the audio book recording sessions for Inheritance with his editor, Michelle Frey, and audio book narrator Gerard Doyle! Videos and pictures are available after the jump!

Christopher Paolini at FantasyCon (September, 2011)

This video showcases Christopher’s panel appearance and book signing, as well as interviews with fans in attendance!

Christopher Paolini Answers Fan Questions, Parts 3 and 4

In the first of the final two videos, Christopher Paolini discusses whether or not he’ll ever write about the Fall of the Riders, his inspiration to write a fantasy novel with dragons, and advice for aspiring authors:

In the final fan answers video, Christopher talks what he feels when he reads fans’ theories, who the green dragon is (which he obviously will not answer), his feelings about Lord of the Rings, and where his inspiration comes from:

Christopher Lists and Explains His Favorite Fantasy Books

Christopher sat down with B&N to list and discuss his favorite fantasy books!

Christopher Visits the Random House Audio Books Recording Session

Lastly, Christopher visited the Random House Audio Books recording session for Inheritance (Book 4) during a recent trip to NYC, where he recorded an interview with his editor, Michelle Frey, and audio book narrator Gerard Doyle. The RH Audio Books team blogged about his visit, also promising an interview with Christopher coming soon. You can read the full visit account on their blog.

bigmike

The crazy school granted laptops wont let me watch the videos. Ugh! just one more reason to hate these things. >:(

bigmike

The crazy school granted laptops wont let me watch the videos. Ugh! just one more reason to hate these things. >:(

Anonymous

This is probably a terrible thing to say to an author but…i can’t help thinking that he’s murdering the dwarvish in the first video.

hoke

well he invented the language so..

Guest

He is not murdering it… it is suppose to sound that way! lol!

eager fan

Is Christopher Paolini coming to Idaho anytime soon for a book signing preferably after Inheritance releases

Bob took an impromptu vacation to a theme park instead of editing the podcast this weekend (can you blame him?), so it probably won’t be up until late tonight. However, in my defense, the podcast was recorded THURSDAY, so this is *all Bob’s fault*.

well that would be god punishing you for negelecting to do what u are supouse to do

bigmike

Oh, a Hallween thing, that makes it alright then. 🙂

bigmike

Oh, a Hallween thing, that makes it alright then. 🙂

The Green dragon

That’s alright. I haven’t even been to a theme park for like three years so it’s completely understandable (except for the Harry Potter thing). But I don’t have school tomorrow so I can stay up late tonight.

Claire14

thanks for letting us know whats going on….I was having podcast withdrawals!!

Lil Uhura

How dare he have a life outside of these books!! He’s supposed to slave away so the rest of us don’t have to pester you guys with our “WHERE the !#@*!! is our podcast?!??” questions just to get through our podcast withdrawals. =)

ZoieB

Thanks for letting us know Mike, guess I’ll just get it in the morning then. I look forward to it 🙂

So remember kids, if you want to become a successful fiction author, don’t do math homework!

Anonymous

Although you would need to be relitavely good at maths so that when you do become published you can work out your percentages, income, royalties and all the math-like calculations that will, no doubt, come with your contract e.t.c.

Matt S

That’s what business managers are for.

wiseman

that’s funny, because right now I’m working on a math problem (university-class math)… and killing some time watching these videos 🙂

gabs345

Thanks for posting these videos! My favorite was Christopher talking about his favorite books (which I’m sure many Shurtugal readers have in common). 23 DAY TIL INHERITANCE GET PUMPED KIDZ.

I read the His Dark Materials series when I was very young, would love to read it again to see how I feel about it now. I love the choice of Moonflower from the Redwall series too. Have to agree with the comment that The Hunger Games deserved a mention.

gabs345

I also read His Dark Materials. They were beautifully written and incredible. I too agree on The Hunger Games mention, but would you categorize it with fantasy? Sci-fi maybe, if that includes dystopian.

What if The Hunger Games isn’t on his favorites list? This was, of course, a list of HIS favorites — meaning his opinions — not a list of the best fantasy or scifi books. I’m not entirely sure “deserves” plays a role in a person’s opinion list…

hoke

8 days since the last big twenty. i know theyre being released sporadically, but will they be released at all?

Arya<3

well I mean there’s not that many topics to write about anymore so it might take longer

Matt S

I remember him saying at some point that he had all of the topics chosen before it all started. I imagine that its taking them longer to get the articles out because they’ve been busy.

I’m holding it until Monday to get us back on track. There will still be 20 articles, no worries. I had a lot going on this week and will have even more going on next week, as I’m traveling and have a convention to cover, so I want to make sure everything is posted properly while I’m gone.

Eldarion

Um, will there be a transcript of the interviews? Also, do you think that Shurtugal will survive after Inheritance comes out? I know you said you plan to follow CP’s other next few works, but that could be in several years. Will Shurtugal go further, or will it slowly decay like the elves?

This week. I have had to hold off on posting it due to things out of my control.

elle

I love Alex Rider,His dark Materials, and he didn’t say this but everyone should read The Hunger Games.

Anonymous

Obviously Harry Potter was up there with his favourite fantasy books, but they had to edit it from the video because it was taking too long to describe the overall epicness and intricacy of the series.

I’m assuming it was excluded for the pure obviousness, or maybe the fact that it simply isn’t in his top ten or something. He was the author chosen to review the sixth Harry Potter book for EW (which is a big honor, considering authors like Stephen King were chosen for the other books), so I know he’s a fan.

hoke

Mike you evil genius. Making us keep coming back to look for the interview/big twenty. By the way great job on the Inheritance Almanac! I just bought it from my school bookstore like 3 weeks ago.

You overestimate my evil skills. I’d have posted the interview a long while back if I was able to. I want it out there as much as you guys want to read it. As for the Big Twenty, I explained that above — it’ll be up Monday.

hoke

ok thanks mike. i had started to think that you were captured and being tortured in some castle 😛

okay I know not necessarily fitting in this thread but I wanted to discuss this theory with someone . so what is the rock of kuthian ? eragon first heard it from solembum and when he mentioned it to aria and oromus they both said they heard of it as in a long forgotten dream .

well what about the banishing of the names ? when all of the dragons except the 13 forsworn banished the forsworn’s dragons’ names . well what if one of those dragons’ was called kuthian ? and the rock of kuthian is where all of the forsworn’s dragons’ hearts of hearts ? that would be 13 eldunari and would be a significant increase of power and that would explain solumbum’s cryptic message of “when all seems lost and your power is insufficient ,go to the rock of kuthian and speak your name “

RandomGuy

I would assume that Galby is now in posession of the Forsworn’s Eldunari. He likely forced his minions into surrendering them through the ancient language long before they were slain in battle.

Also, I’m not entirely sure how the lack of names combined with eldunari would even work. Would he still be able to sap the dragon’s power, or would their insanity somehow curb his attempts?

Burzghash

I’d imagine that since they are not insane but instead dumb brutes they would be rendered incapable of stopping him ,and since the forsworn would need all the power of their dragons they were probably allowed to keep their dragons’ eldunari and since brom slew or at least arranged the death of 4 or 5 of them then it’s possible that there are at least that many hidden by brom and if that is the case perhaps that has somehting to do with what brom said to eragon when he died

I didn’t find them good enough to stand as their own article (neither answered questions we didn’t already know), so I saved them for one of these big “round-up” articles. Don’t really see the issue with that.

You should check out Lytherus.com — we have some awesome Hobbit movie news coverage!

The_White_Rider

Just checked out Lytherus’ Hobbit coverage, you guys have some great stuff on there. Just an idea, you might want to post links to the other two The Hobbit pre-production documentary type things, I saw you guys posted the first one but the other two were even better. Would probably be some good traffic for you guys. Great job with everything Mike.

DragonsAreAwesome

Wow, I’ve read nearly all of his favorite books. I also have always like The Hobbit better than the rest of the Lord Of The Rings Trilogy; it’s so cool that he does too. 🙂

Matt S

I’ve never read most of those books although I thought of starting on some them. I just don’t have as much time for reading as I used to anymore. The Hobbit and LotR were good, and A Song of Fire and Ice was amazing. Also if anyone is looking for something new to read there is a book called Legacy: Beginnings that was a really good read. Its currently only available as an ebook, but I’d recommend it to anyone looking for something new out there.

These are way cool. Mike, can you tell whoever is in charge of putting out the second part of the interview to hurry it up? It’s been over a month. I’m still looking forward to it, but that hope is withering and I’m getting disgusted about it.

When they can? look i’m not impatient or anything and am with you, but that thing could have been released MONTHS ago dude. It’s not when they can, it’s when it’s most profitable for them.

Adilas73

Profitable?, they do not get any money from this site except for merchendise that they sell. Anyway atleast their is an interveiw at all, if Mike had not thought of this site years ago we would not have all of this infomation. DONT HATE THE PLAYER, HATE THE GAME….

Oh, there will be more. Stay tuned for our announcement on this weekend’s podcast.

Matt S

Looking forward to it.

Lil Uhura

Here’s a question for you Mike. If CP is the god/creator of the Inheritance universe, what would you say that all of your respective roles are? Moses, bringing the tablets down from the mountain perhaps? =)